St. Louis- Part 3 "Children's Museum"

The next morning we spent at The St. Louis Magic House Children's Museum and had a blast.  I don't think we even saw it all but we had to get back to the hotel for lunch and naps.  I am not going to caption all the pictures because they are self explanatory.  

St. Louis-Part 2 "The Zoo"

We took advantage of being in St. Louis and spent a morning at the zoo.  It was really neat but a little too hot for a great time.

I will say it was amazing to see the hippos and made the heat worth it.  

St. Louis-Part 1 "Getting There"

Anyone who knows me knows I don't travel with my children.  I find it to be more trouble than fun  up to this point so I just try not to do it.  However, Matt has a really big family (3 aunts, 15 cousin) and I really enjoy his aunts and cousins.  So if they are all going to be together we try to make it.  One of his cousins got married in St. Louis at the end of May and we decided to go since it is a direct flight on SW.  His parents flew in the night before and flew with us to help out with the kids.  

The wort part of flying with kids is all the killing time you have to do.  We tried to make it go by quickly.

Darby had never flown to her recollection so she was super excited.  As we were taxiing to take off she looked at me and said, "Mama, are you sure this is okay?"  

Georgia is easy and could color for ever so the hour flight was no big deal for her. 

I guess I should mention that Mera did great as well.  She sat in my lap and wasn't bothered by any of it.

The Creek

To celebrate the start of summer my friend Kelly and I took our kiddos to Upper Spavinaw creek for the day.  The creek is a well held tradition in my family.  When I was a kid we would go every summer several times and I have such wonderful memories of it.  Hoping my kids will have the same.  

End of Kindergarten

Georgia had a little graduation ceremony at the end of kindergarten to show off what she and her class had learned.  They recited poems in Spanish and sang a bunch of songs.  It was fun to see how comfortable they all are with the language.

Here is the whole class.  I think there are 28 of them that will pretty much stay together until 5th grade. 

Georgia receiving her diploma from perhaps one of the best teachers in Tulsa, Sra. Diaz.

Sra. Mejia and Sra. Diaz

This is Georgia on the last day of school a few days after graduation.

And just for fun here is a comparison pic from the first day of school. 

Lightning Girl

About a year ago Georgia was invited to a super hero party and since she isn't really exposed to any mainstream super heroes we made up our own-Lightning Girl!  Well she refused to wear the costume before we left for the party and then at the party.  I was more than a little irritated but kids will be kids.  It has been hanging in her closet ever since then.  For some reason she recently decided yo pull it out and put it on.  So cool, right?!

Green Bean Hideout

A friend posted a picture of a neat idea on facebook recently so I decided to give it a try.  It was referred to as a living hideout but we call it the bean tepee.  We built a structure with bamboo rod and garden twine and then planted green bean seeds at the base.  We will see what happens over the summer.

Don't know if I've mentioned but we had "squired" one of my mom's peacocks through no effort of our own. He watched us build.

When the girls got bored they got out the art car Georgia had made a Philbrook that day and took it for a spin. You can see me in the background still working hard.  

Pancakes with the Firemen

One of our local fire houses has an annual pancake breakfast fundraiser.  We had never been before but went this year and had a good time.  The pancakes were good and the kids liked to tour and playing on the fire truck.